The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) is a cross-industry organization advancing global technologies for smartphone-to-car connectivity solutions. CCC is developing Digital Key, an exciting new open standard to allow smart devices, like smartphones to act as a vehicle key. Digital Key will let drivers lock and unlock their cars, and even let them start the engine and share access to friends or valets, using their phones. Another project, Car Data, will create an ecosystem to link the ever-expanding set of vehicle data to authorized data usage, such as pay-how-you-drive insurance, road monitoring, and fleet management. CCC previously developed and launched MirrorLink®, an open standard for connecting apps between the smartphone and the car. MirrorLink® is currently used in millions of cars and smartphones. CCC includes a large number of stakeholders, including Car OEMs, Tier-I suppliers, Phone Manufacturers, and App Developers.
The CCC is a cross-industry standards organization with a vision to create sustainable and flexible ecosystems that standardize the interfaces between vehicles and smartphones. CCC aims to provide a consistent user experience across all vehicles and mobile devices by increasing interoperability and reducing market fragmentation.
The mission of CCC, representing the majority of the global automotive and smartphone industries, is to bring together all the relevant industries to develop solutions for the future of vehicle-to-smartphone connectivity. CCC facilitates the coordination of mobile Device OEMs and Vehicle OEMs to build products with ease of use, convenience, security and privacy protections, and extensive capability.
CCC MirrorLink™, a standard for controlling handsets from the dashboard or steering wheel, enables consumers to access certified apps and other content from a familiar, ‘projected’ interface across certified cars and smartphones.
CCC Digital Key, a standardized ecosystem that allows consumers to easily and confidently use their mobile devices to access vehicles. Along with robust capability and convenience, CCC Digital Key enables mobile devices to store, authenticate, and share digital keys for vehicles in a secure, privacy-preserving way that works everywhere, even when the smartphone’s battery is low.
Through its well-developed certification programs, CCC rigorously evaluates and certifies devices, cars and apps for their compliance and interoperability.